Architecture committee/2015-06-03

People present: Brion, Daniel, Gabriel, Roan, S, Tim

Minutes from

Pending action items

Everyone please decline the meeting in GCal if you're not attending.

Create a proper command-line runner for MediaWiki maintenance tasks phab:T99268
- Schedule
pywikipediabot Compat deprecation phab:T99365
- Remove MW RFC project
Gabriel: maybe retry/timeout RFCs the week after: phab:T97204, phab:T97206

- none-

Priorities phab:T96903 , two clusters more ready than others: 1. content 2. modularity, SOA, interfaces,

with content split out to phab:T99088
also Daniel's http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Architecture_Roadmap_June_2015
- on wiki: Architecture_Roadmap_June_2015
- "roadmap" is misleading. "focus" or "topics", perhaps?
- "we" in the document is supposed to refer to MW developers in general, not the ArchCom
Gabriel: should we have a working group? For example we have no representation from Reading here.
Brion: yes, makes sense to have a content model working group
Daniel: I would like to work on multiple content, that enables a lot of things and is immediately useful
Gabriel: challenges: what is revision, what appears on ?action=history page
Daniel: action=history is probably a separate RFC
Daniel: should we put this all together and publish a priorities document?
Gabriel: no, we should make a priority list, but projects don't have to be fully described, leave that up to the working committees , leans toward doing it in Phabricator
Brion "this document" produces specific actionable RFCs.
Gabriel: shall we set up a sprint next week, to merge the documents and set up communication
Daniel: Should content model and service objects be separate working groups? Some overlap...
- focus on content, announce modularity and services is next up.

Gabriel: Code responsibilities document: James sent around e-mail "Confirming each vertical's responsibilities" in addition to Trevor's Mysterious module owners document, it's not Developers/Maintainers but https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q1BPBy_yEiHibCz2HgYvTwaZejwI_7OlGIl5l-iVcQk/edit?usp=sharing

a core team focusing on driving the over-arching direction, priorities and coordination, and delegating more focused work to sub-teams
see phab:T89907

May 20 ArchCom meeting proposed dicsussing this RFC:

Automatically tag edits that make a redirect, that converts a redirected page to a normal page, moves across namespaces and others phab:T73236

Gabriel: schedule sprint to polish the API Priorities / invitation to the content WG, then communicate it
Gabriel: forward / respond to James'/Rob's email/document about responsibilities.
- someone: create #ArchCom task to publish area owners from this.